Today, development of applications involves dealing with a plethora of challenges with respect to devices, platforms and operating systems. The challenge of scaling, installing, configuring and patching myriad of elements of enterprise application is time-consuming, risky and costly. Development team loses focus on building the solutions as an application development platform demands an extensive technical coding level. In addition, application deployment in the cloud brings in underlying intricacies in networks, servers and storage which decelerate application deployment. A new avenue of tackling these pain points associated with application development and deployment can be solved with PaaS (Application-Platform-as-a-Service). With its robust, flexible and simple solutions, Progress Software, headquartered in Massachusetts, USA makes it possible for application development teams to get hold of the functionality from modern web with minimal coding and promulgate the focus into building solutions. Consistent hiccups in data integration, security and authentication decreases agility and productivity. But Progress Software has its mindset aimed at simplifying the development platform and by keeping pace with agile trends like mobility, the company provides easy-to-use, model driven, drag-and-drop mechanisms to rapidly build and iterate over business applications.“With several capabilities built-in to the platform (such as Organization Hierarchies, Security, Authentication, rich Data types Integration, Google Maps integration, Calendar, Tasks, etc.), it makes it possible for development teams to get a lot of functionality out-of-the-box”, says Sachin Hejip, Sr. Director Software Engineering, Progress Software.

Progress Software turned into a promising provider by leveraging “Pacific”, a managed application platform which handles all complexities with application deployment and scaling. Furthermore, the company’s cloud operations group manages all the databases, security, and network, machines in a seamless fashion, taking away all the operational complexities from Pacific users. On the operational front, security infringement of public data, websites and applications pertain to loss of control of IT resource and infrastructure. Being a customer centric platform , Pacific makes use of the best-in-class security policies, practices and protocols to safeguard identities and data. “Network isolation is employed for the cloud machines to prevent unauthorized access. The security of our users’ data is of paramount importance to Progress”, articulates Sachin.

Progress Software has an experienced finger on cloud based application development platform and which is why it has Pacific , composed of Rollbase- aPaaS offering – which is focused on enabling high-productivity development of business applications, Rollbase Mobile- a tool for the development of both web-based and mobile business applications. Using its model-driven authoring environment customers can get seamless mobile user experience. The company’s recent acquisition of Modulus signals its interest to adopt the burgeoning Enterprise Node Js development market.

Optimizing Performance in Database Connectivity
Cloud/SaaS applications have grabbed the spotlight with the rise in the volume of data towed from activity tracking, sensors, logs and events. The data problem of IT has led to the cloud chaos as there is a risk of making new data sets available to enterprise users in the cloud. Progress Software’s attempt to provide seamless IT service and consistent access to data sources, has given birth to DataDirect Cloud and Connect service through which organizations can optimize performance within the ever-so-critical arena of database connectivity and the growing requirements regarding high-performance import and export of data bulk loads with reduced time and cost. “With DataDirect Cloud you can query real-time data to make faster, more accurate decisions and turning brilliant ideas into brilliant applications quickly, seamlessly, and across the board”, points out Sachin.

Overlapping of data sourced from multiple data sources impacts the data quality and integration. Another fascinating solution- Progress Easyl (part of the Pacific suite) addresses data quality issues and allows seamless and fast data integration by simplifying access, blending and reporting of data irrespective of the source.

The capability to build robust application development platforms stands as the hall mark of Progress Software. Having a long history in application development, Progress’s Open Edge platform is known to have powered some of the world’s most successful applications. Besides working closely with the start ups, the company lends its expertise to several ISVs and have bestowed them with several success take aways. With a proven track record in evangelizing modern application development, Progress Software has planned to trim down capital and operational expenses from the early stage startup which can significantly bolster the chances of success.